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"Paragraph", appears to me under correction unusual in an official correspondence, its offensive tone being only calculated to offend and wound the sensibilities of ... was intended, but it May be here noted!! an old Public Servant entitled as he is by his position himself in this Government to a more decorous treatment.
As to my designation of the new Branch of my Department as that of the Office of Police and Lighting Rates, I can only say that I had no motive in doing so, and my correspondence with this Department is anything but courteous.
There are no improper separate offices in the Treasury; there is a Cashier, and Clerk and Accountant; I can assure this Department, there is the most ...
I might have written of the office that an important portion was served might be attached to it at the moment it was left at the "Residence" of the Taxpayers affected by it; as strictly speaking I am exposed to serve those notices myself, I deemed it but proper that no date should be attached to it by my Deputy till the notice was actually served on my behalf.
I have since taken the sense upon the point when I found I had erred in judgment.
As to the dates which appeared upon the notices as that upon which the Police & Lighting Rates were. Rate Chirk, of the Cashier or of the Accountant in connection with the Treasury Department...
The notices I signed as adverted to in your letter were not strictly speaking "Blank" and the absence of the date upon which I signed each notice was an omission, but purposely left "Blank" that the date upon which it was served might be inserted.
**Notices were issued with no date shewing when they were signed**.
Yes, the notices he stated not to have been signed blank; my instructions were that the last day in August should be inserted, and with the authority before them of the Government Notification published in the Gazettes of the 11th and 18th July, and 8th of August and that emanating from this office on the 8th, 15th, and 29th of August in the possession of those Taxpayers should have paid their rates.